alex .
Aug 7, 2003, 9:13 AM
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The clash between US and MX document systems is driving me crazy. My wife and I were married in Mexico so her surnames did not change. As you all know the names combine with the subsequent generation. Well, this has been nothing but trouble for us. Whenever we have to enter a document into a database somewhere, the database is ill equipped to handle four names : the first, middle, paternal last name, and maternal last name. Some times the maternal last name is omitted, sometimes the paternal is lost, sometimes they are run together as one name(IRS) sometimes dropped altogether and my surname appended (INS), sometimes hyphenated, sometimes run together and the end truncated cuz it doesn't all fit, sometimes put in as one name with a space inbetween, which to me is indistinguishable from two names, but thems the rules.
So the difficulty arises when the various databases share information and they can't find a match: "The Social Security number that you have provided does not match the name in our records so the deduction is denied.....". THEY are the ones that PROVIDED the record, not ME!!!
And Mexico is just as bad. I had to have my marriage certificate done over again because they appended my mother's maiden name to my last name so I'd have the requisite four names. GRRRR.
Then, on top of that, my wife's first name, Maria, (which she doesn't go by, she uses her middle name) is so common in Mexico that it is often abbreviated : Ma. Its that way on her birth certificate. So some places call her Ma, and of course she doesn't answer.
I wish there was a way to fix all of this. If someone says their name is Ima Banana , or Cher, then it should go in the database that way, not some other way that fits better.
These paper pushers have me convinced that "cluster" is only half a word...........
Alex
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