My maternal grandfather's name is Andrew Piwowarczyk. Most of the information that I have comes from the Ellis Island web site. A summary of what I found follows. Andrew (Andrezej pronounced Ahn Jay), Piwowarczyk came to the U.S. in the late 1800's. He married Wyctoria (Victoria) Malecka in the mid 1890's. Their first surviving child was May Piwowarczyk. May was born on 23rd of February in 1895. Michal Piwowarczyk arrived in the U.S. at Ellis Island on the 15th of November in 1907. He was going to his brother Andreze? Piwowarczyk at 60 Johnson?? In Wilkes-Barre, PA. He listed his hometown as Skalnik, Austria (now Poland). He listed a relative in Skalnik as father Franz (sp?) Piwowarczyk. His estimated date of birth is 1886 It appears that Michal returned to Skalnik. See later entry. Parvel Piwowarczyk arrived in the U.S. at Ellis Island on the 25th of January in 1909. Parvel may be Pawel (Paul). He was going to his brother Michal Piwowarczyk in Mayfield, PA. He listed his hometown as Skalnik, Austria. He listed a relative in Skalnik as father Jan Piwowarczyk. His estimated date of birth is 1888 Franciszka Piwowarczyk arrived in the U.S. on the 21 of September in 1909. She was going to her brother Andrezej Piwowarczyk at 701 N. Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA. (I was born in the house on Franklin Street). She listed her hometown as Skalnik, Austria. She listed her nearest living relative as her father Josep Piwowarczyk living in Skalnik, Austria. Her estimated date of birth is 1890. Wiktoria Piwowarczyk arrived in the U.S. at Ellis Island on the 15th of March in 1911. She was going to her brother Piwowarczyk, Pawel in Wilkes-Barre, PA. His address was listed as 6 ???. The street name was long; the second letter looks like it may be a "y". She listed her nearest relative as father Jan Piwowarczyk living in Skalnik, Austria. Her estimated birth date is 1889. Michal Piwowarczyk, apparently, returned to the U.S. He arrived at Ellis Island on the 22nd of May in 1913. He was going to his brother Andrezej Piwowarczyk at 701 N. Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre, PA. His nearest living relative is listed as wife Karolina (sp?) Piwowarczyk, living in Skalnik, Austria. His estimated birth date is 1884. Note that Michal's birth year is different from his entry above. I used the arrival date at Ellis Island and his age at the time of arrival to estimate the year of his birth. A puzzle here is that Michal has Franz Piwowarczyk as his father. Pawel has Jan Piwowarczyk as his father. Franciszka has Josep Piwowarczyk as her father and Wiktoria has Jan as her father. It's possible that not all of them were siblings of Andrew and were just trying to add credibility for their coming to the U.S. Andrew and Victoria (Malecka) had four daughters. Therefore, the Piwowarczyk name disappeared from his descendant's. He died before I was born. Victoria then married Andrew's brother Peter. I have no other information on Peter. Apparently, my grandmother regretted the marriage because of his drinking and made him leave the house. I have some dim recollections of him and one picture of him Victoria (Malecka) and her youngest daughter. I do have good recollections of Victoria. I was almost six years old when she died. I have not found any new information on Peter. I have a picture of a grave marker at the St. Stanislaus Cemetery in Plains, PA with the name Peter Piwowarczyk. I have been doing a name search on Bing. I was amazed at the number of entries. Facebook has over four hundred friends under Piwowarczyk. Many of them in the United States. I would appreciate any information that any of you may have on Piwowarczyk and how I could contact someone in Skalnik for any public information that may be available. Thanks' Len Urban