[Larry S]

Hi Hanna:

Thanks for the info on LDS film researching. You’re right, this is the next step.

As, to Skiba, I have found on-line Polish translators that interpret it to mean: ridge, chunk or slice.
In addition, information from some geologic web sites provide the following “technical” descriptions:

The geology of the Carpathian mountain region, “south of Stare Siolo”, contains an overthrust belt (an area where thick rock layers are pushed over one another by compressional forces) of isoclinal folds (when two limbs of a fold lie parallel to each other). The thrust planes are composed of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene beds of black shales and siliceous sandstones containing an assemblage of foraminifers (marine protozoan) known as the Skole Nappe. The Skole Nappe comprises both Cretaceous and Paleogene flysh (a soft sedimentary rock), and is subdivided into six large overturned slices or faulted folds known as the SKIBA structure units.

So, either my ancestors took their name from, or gave it to, these unique rock structures when they settled in the area.

Any thoughts on the origin of Ganczarz = Gangarz = Ганчар ? I have been told it may have something to do with “pottery” or a “potter”.