I am also looking for information on the LOPATA family. I am the son of Michael (1911-1984) and Marie (1921-1997) Lopato (changed at some point from the original Lopata). I currently live in Western PA.
Michael was the son of Martin LOPATA(who was born in the 1870's and died 1914) and Rozalia Najphor. Martin and Rozalia came to
Western Pennsylvania in the early 1900's, via New York, where their first child Catherine was born around 1902. Other children were Sophie, Margaret, Stephen,
Michael (my dad), Adam and Eve.
I am told they were from a town called Niedzica, which was at the time a part of
Austro-Hungarian Empire, later part of Poland.
I would be pleased to hear any other information about the Lopata family in the U.S. or Slovakia, or share any other info I have.