From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" <gerardo.santana@...>
Date: 2006-01-03T01:45:51+09:00
Subject: Re: The "ruby way" to break apart a name?

2006/1/2, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net>:
> On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:25 pm, Gerardo Santana G�mez Garrido wrote:
> > We had a similar problem at work.
> >
> > In the Spanish speaking world we use two last names: one from the
> > father's family (apellido paterno) and another from the mother's
> > family (apellido materno). For the "first name" there's no limit in
> > the number of names.
> >
> > Fortunately for us, the names were stored in the database as:
> >
> > <apellido paterno> <apellido materno> <nombres>
>
> I've always wondered about this, both in Spanish names and American hyphenated
> names. When the mother and father have a baby, does it go like this:
>
> baby.apellido_materno = mother.apellido_paterno
> baby.apellido_paterno = father.apellido_paterno

This is the one.
Father's last name prevails in each case. Very machista eh? :)

apellido_materno would be the "mother's name" in the English speaking
world, I believe (since mother's last name is her father's last name)

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Gerardo Santana
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