Hello,
I believe we might be related. My maiden name was Szczepanik. I had an Aunt Gert and Uncle Frank. They lived in Yorkville, NY but spelled their last name Stepanick (or something like that). Frank had a brother Stanley (my father)a sister, Victoria. There were other brothers too but I never knew them - Justyn, Joseph, Walter and a few others. I think that Julian may also have been a brother but I never met him that I know of. Their parents would have been Jan (John?) and Agatha Szczepanik. If this is the case that would make your Dad and me first cousins.