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Principles (please connect to this Page for leading ideas of this Site)
Fonts
Abbreviations
Conventions
Disclaimers
Words that have different meaning here
FontsOne of the first problems you might encounter, if connected to this Site, could be the viewing of the Latvian letters on your screens. As a rule, I write the names on this site in the spelling of the original texts or documents, but I frequently add the same name in the modern Latvian spelling, because I consider the modern form of names as the reference, or the standard form. Quite possibly your ancestor names were never written in Latvian, so you may feel some disagreement with the choice. But what else could be chosen as the standard?This is the reason I think it is absolutely necessary you have the Baltic fonts for your browser. The modern browsers provide the appropriate fontcases without problems and quite frequently they automatically switch to the necessary coding. Sometimes it is needed to click additionally on the button Reload of the browser. In case of problems you may connect to the DekSoft homepage for guidelines how to configure your browser for the Latvian language. May be it will be important to know that all the pages of the Site are prepared using the encoding Windows-1257, or what is the same ISO-8859-13.
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FHC | Family history center |
KGB | Committee of the State Security of the USSR. The abbreviation of the Russian term - Komitet gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti. KGB was created in 1954 |
LDS | Latter Days Saints (aka Mormons) |
MGB | Ministry of the State Security of the USSR. The abbreviation of the Russian term - Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti. MGB arose in 1946 when NKGB was renamed. |
NKGB | The people commissariat of the State Security of the USSR. The abbreviation of the Russian term - Narodnyj komissariat gosudarstvennoj bezopasnosti. NKGB was created in February, 1941 |
NKVD | The people commissariat of the Interior of the USSR. The abbreviation of Russian term - Narodnyj komissariat vnutrennyh del. NKVD was split in NKVD and NKGB in February, 1941 |
TD | Telephone directory |
Conventions
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Authorship | The author of the
Website ROOTS=SAKNES is Bruno Martuzāns, who is referred to
in any text of the Site written in the first person - I, me etc.,
if it is not specifically mentioned otherwise, of course. The maintainer of the site is the Computer network Sigmanet. Though a lot of work for this site was done in Sigmanet, only the author is responsible for the content of the published information, not the Sigmanet. |
Copyright. | The texts, if not mentioned otherwise,
are written by Bruno Martuzāns. Any part of his texts may be
reproduced, with a restriction (see below), in nonprofit publications
provided that credit is given to the writer and the maintainer; and that
the author receives, without needing to ask, a free copy of the final material;
and that no changes are made without the express permission of the author.
The information herein is not intended to be used to draw general
conclusions or to attempt to prove or disprove anything about any group
of population or any family or any person and it is
not permitted to be used or even referred to for this purpose.
The information about the authors and the copyright issues is attached, if available, to the texts of other authors. Of course, everybody still own the copyright to the material they posted to the author of the Site, who merely owns the compilation (if any) of that material, not the material itself. If the originals of any here published documents, letters, postcards etc. were bought, it was assumed that the copyrights were bought therewith. |
Universality |
No attempt should be made to separate any individual, to make claims of good or evil persons or intent, to label anyone as important and negligible amongst the people mentioned on this Site. If anybody lived, he/she had indisputable rights to exist and therefore to be recorded here. |
Privacy | The information on this site concerns real people, if not stated otherwise. As a rule, the people mentioned here do not live more. If anybody thinks that some part of information can do any harm to any living person, please inform the author. |
Legal matters | While every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information in this compilation, the author Bruno Martuzāns, the contributors and the maintainer of the Site - Computer network Sigmanet assume no responsibility for errors, omissions, or damages resulting from the use of the information and are in no way liable for misuse of the information contained within. The documents are provided "as is" without any express or implied warranties. |
Politics | The information is provided for purposes of genealogical
and family history research only. No effort was made to achieve any political
correctness of the texts. The information herein, the author and the maintainer
are not associated with any of governmental bodies, political parties or
organizations in any official or unofficial capacity whatever. The texts
should reflect the opinions of their authors. The information herein is not intended to be used to draw general conclusions or to attempt to prove or disprove anything about any group of population or any family or any person and it is not permitted to be used or even referred to for this purpose. |
Arts | A special attention was paid to make the Site as simple as possible (but not simpler). It presents no frames, no running animals, no bouncing balls, no waving flags, no decorative pictures and the visitor should be warned, if big files (more than 100kB) had to be loaded. |
Time span | The historical information on this site is limited with the reference time interval 1800-1950 approximately, mainly because most part of Latvia inhabitants got their names at the beginning of the 19th century, so no reliable genealogy research is possible for the previous centuries. |