More things I'm begging people to do, this time with no apologies:

[conuly]

If you have any influence or control at all over the people who run a database with people's names, please please please do whatever you can to make sure they accept hyphens and apostrophes. This is 2022! You don't need to be so stingy with what are, in fact, pretty common aspects of a lot of people's names!

My sister should not have spent half this day arguing with the hospital over whether or not the name Anne-Marie properly contains a fucking hyphen.

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[senmut]

Our search function for pulling up results? CAN'T even HANDLE spaces in last names. I have to try the first half ONLY to search.

And because of the issue YOU just noted, not all offices put the double name in properly, and sometimes the first half gets put in as a MIDDLE name.

(I'm pretty fond of 'tell me the date of birth and WHAT DAY it was sent to us' just to get a narrower field when last name is breaking the system because the system is stupid)

[conuly]

Eurgh, I completely forgot about spaces, in either first or last names. Foolish oversight - my mother's mail either is addressed to Annemarie or Anne Marie, both of which, as noted, are wrong but one of which has a space.