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The Germans from Russia Heritage Society (GRHS) Lexicon is a list of nearly all terms (words) found in the documents of the GRHS web pages and linked documents. The Lexicon contains over 1/2 million terms.

Uses: Determine if your term of interest appears in the GRHS pages and documents. Find variations in the spelling of your term. And, locate the documents which contain your term.

Documents: The types of documents used in the creation of the Lexicon include (nearly) all with the file extensions txt, pdf, html (and htm), and many without an extension which actually are html documents.

Caveat: The method for determining what constitutes a term (word) comes with strategic trade-offs due to file types, spelling, formatting, punctuation, character sets, errors, etc. In the creation of the Lexicon, spaces (' ') and special characters (e.g., /\[]%+=*$&!#"'`-.,;:(){}<>_|~) were used as term separators.

Search rules: Very few. Case is ignored. No embedded spaces. Two or more characters. If your character string appears in any Lexicon term - it is a match. If you only want terms that start with your character string then place a '^' (caret) in front of your character string. If you only want terms that end with your character string then place a '$' (dollar sign) after your character string.

Technical: Regex (regular expressions) are used to search the Lexicon. Some characters (metacharacters) have a special role that defines the logic of the search pattern. Click for additional information.
simplified available regex syntax
character classes: [abc], [0-9], . (any single character)
anchors: ^ (start of string), $ (end of string)
quantifiers: * (0 or more), + (1 or more), ? (0 or 1)
grouping: ( )
alternation: | (or)
an example (do not include the quotes): '^t?(sch|sh)ot+[aey]$' - at the start of the term search for an optional 't', followed by 'sch' or 'sh', followed by 'o', followed by one or more 't's, followed by an 'a' or 'e' or 'y' at the end of the term

Exclusions: Terms that are not in the Lexicon include those that are only one character in length, are greater than 30 characters in length, or terms that consist of only numbers. Additionally, terms from the most recently posted documents might not be included.

Search results: Displayed below - self-explanatory and alphabetized. Click a term to see the document(s) where it occurred.

Enter your character string and click the 'Search Lexicon' button.



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