My cousin did a history trace on my last namePalbicki and found it was changed when the family came over to the US and now I can not get ahold of her. From what I remembe her telling me is that my ancisters were founders of a small farming village in polando if anybody knows anything at all I would greatly apprciate it
My mother did some research on my grandad's surname; Bil and thinks it must have been changed, i can't remember why she thought that though. Odd that you mention it.
Its possible that it got changed from Pałbicki to Palbicki. There are 14 Pałbicki's in Poland (7 in słupskie, 3 in gdańskie, 3 in szczecińskie and 1 in elbląskie regions).