Babula Family

I am researching my paternal side of the family. My grandmother was Helen Babula. She died very young and my father grew up without his mother and most of her family. So I don't have much on the family except what I have been told, a little bit of stuff received and some I have found on my own. It is very hard to research a family when they came from an area that once was a different country. Helen's father, Albert, was born in, I believe, Gawluszowice, Galicia, Austria, which is now in Poland. I received copies of letter which his father sent to the US to his daughter. His father's name was Josephi Babula and his mother, again I believe, was Anna Zarvtucka. Josephi died early as Albert had to apply to go to Poland to help sell the land and help his mother as his father had passed away.

I have emailed the Catholic Church in that area, and received a generic response stating that I had to contact somewhere else as they do not have birth/marriage/death records. Which I understand from other researchers they do.

Can anyone give me guidance in how i find out more about this family? Albert would have been born about 1884.

Thank you,
Jennifer Smith

BABULA: root-word baba which can mean woman in general, grandmother and prefaced by the adjective stara -- an old hag.

ZARVTUCKA: not Polish or misspelt. No such surname in Poland.