hey i too im a gaona and dont know much bout my history but my mother told me that my grandfather was spanish and had blue eyes my grandfather married my grandma in the 1940s or around there somewhere but my grandparents were in durango mexico so i dont know if that helps any but our last named is orginally pronounced De Gaona but i guess somewhere along the line we dropped the De i know my info isnt that great bur know your not alone im one Gaona here (: