Kohaliku uurija Žanis Skudra "Okupeeritud Läti päevik".

Žanis Skurda was born on June 19, 1924 in the former Vecauce Parish (now Vadakste Parish), Bileiķu "Elguči", he studied at the Vītiņu 6-year elementary school of the Vecauce Parish and the Auces High School, he completed his knowledge at the University of Latvia, obtaining the qualification of a public instructor of chemical technology, he worked at the Riga Biological in the experimental factory of preparations, for some time also as a bus driver, but after retirement he farmed in his native "Elguči". Worked at the collective farm in the Priedula construction brigade.

During the Second World War, neither the German nor the Russian armies were drafted due to poor health. After the war, he served in the Soviet army, interrupting his high school education.

From 1934, he started to collect and archive various news about Latvia - the fates of farmsteads, churches, historical buildings, pubs, mills and also nature. Žanis Skudra donates all his free time to local research, all his vacations to tours of Latvia. This is how materials, photographs were collected, and the "Book of Occupied Latvia Days" was published by the Latvian National Fund in Stockholm under the pseudonym Jānis Dzintars.

On June 7, 1978, Žani Skudra was arrested in Tallinn and in November of the same year, the Supreme Court of Riga sentenced him to twelve years of imprisonment for treason and espionage, which he is serving in the camp of Chusovaya district of Perm region. In the autumn of 1988, Žanis returned from detention to his native "Elguči" and continued to work on writing the history of Bileikai, but the work remained unfinished.

Žanis Skudra died on June 14, 1994 and rests in Bileikai in the Lanka cemetery.

Literary pseudonym - Makaris, Zeks, Dzintars, Jānis Dzintars