Hi, Mary. I've been distracted by a lot of other things, and I have had to put my genealogy to the side temporarly. But...you are now spurring me to pick this up again! My Skvarla is also named Maria. She was my great-grandmother on my father's side. They were from Eastern Slovakia...specifically, the Sabinov region. Believe this or not, the church records from Sabinov are available on line from the Family History Library..i.e., not just on microfilm, but actually on line so that you can read them directly on your computer. I was looking for something else in the records, but I did run across a few Skvarlas. I made a mental note to return to these later and pursue them in more detail. I don't think this is a particulary common name, so I'm thinking these are probably my ancestors (an maybe yours as well). Do you know where your grandmother came from in the Old Country. By the way...my relatives are in Whiting, Indiana, just outside of Chicago. Maybe you and I are related!