This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Benore, Gonia, and Finley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACI/456.607.901.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Angela, I started out very confused also. I had bits and pieces of info from my mom and Grandma Jacobs. I set out to set the record straight. It was not easy. The Gonia and Benore name can be spelled many ways. There was also secrecy of the lives of these families. But, I do believe that I have the family tree correct. James Herman Benore is my Half Great-Great Uncle. James Benore went by Herman. He married Rosa "Rose" Gonia. Hames Herman Benore was born March 14 , 1885 in Bedford Twp, Erie, Michigan.. Rose Gonia was born in August 1889 in Toledo, Ohio. They had at least four children, the first is unknown to me and was born between 1906-1910 in Michigan and may have died young or at birth. Ethelyn B. was born about 1907 in Ohio or Michigan, Velma Viola was born June 19, 1909 in Michigan, and Oliver J. was born in 1914 in Bedford Twp., Erie, Michigan. Oliver was killed by a car/truck in front of his home on Telegraph Rd, Erie, Mich. at the age of 16. Ethelyn B. Benore married a Schwalm. I don't have any more info on them except for the fact that they lived on Lavoy Rd, Bedford Twp., near the corner of LaVoy and Telegraph Rd. My mom use to wade through the creek next to Aunt Rose's home on LaVoy. The Benore's started out as Bernard. Actually it was first recorded back in the 1600's as Besnard. It later became Bernard and then with some families, Benore with many mispellings. You can email me with any questions that you have and I will be glad to give you the info that I have. If you wish to share info about Uncle Herman' and Aunt Rose's children and the families, it would be greatly appreciated. I have a picture of Uncle Herman and Aunt Rose. If you wish I will be glad to make a copy of it for you. Take care. Cathy