I'm confused. TBC has an article posted this afternoon that the wife of Anthony Gonzales is named Petra Ortiz. Don't most married couples have the same last name? Or is this an exception in Oildale?

Old blue do you ever have anything nice to say???? Seems to me you have a negative outlook and are mad at the world. Lighten up!!!!

He's as lite as it gets, BUD LITE. ;=)))

It's probably just an issue with shortening their name to just one last name. Traditionally, hispanics have two last names. For married women, one last name will be from her father and the other from her husband's father. For unmarried women and for men, one last name comes from their father and one from their mother. Optionally, a married woman can retain her unmarried name as well. Traditionally, the father's name comes first, then the mother's name (or the husband's father's name for married women who opt to take it). Now, if someone tells you their full name, including both last names, and you shorten that down to just the final name mentioned as the last name, a married woman's last name would be that of her husband's father, but a man's last name would be shortened to his mother's, so they would not match. To make matters even more confusing, if a hispanic opts to shorten their name down to just one last name, they will often just give their father's name (the first of their two last names), so again, there would be a name mismatch.

If that's unclear, look at the examples in this article: perez.cs.vt.edu/