>Alex
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>How come you don't know how to spell your own name?

Sorry for not answering, but,... well... I had the whole reply and while doing a last edition I alt-left arrowed and lost it all.

Long story short, my family name suffered some sort of spanish-o-lysation. You see, I was born in Mexico as was my father and grandfather. We don't know when the name got to Mexico (we haven't been able to find any records in the small town where my granddad was from) so we have to assume that the name is either spelled correctly or that a judge changed it while recording the name of an ancestor (highly likely, as judges had final saying on names at one time). We have two theories for when the name came to Mexico; either from an Irish soldier that defected from the US in the US-Mexico war or from Pirates that settled in the SE of Mexico. As my grandfather is from the SE of Mexico we like the second theory better. P) (yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate's life for me!)

An interesting trivial fact is that the Mac prefix means 'son of' very much like the suffix 'ez' at the end in Spanish names (Hernandez, Lopez, etc.). Do you know of any prefix / suffixes that mean the same in other languages?