| AA |
Archive Acquisition |
| AC |
Area Coordinator (someone who specializes in researching specific areas of the U.S. or Canada where Germans from Russia settled) |
| AHSGR |
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia |
| BDO |
Beresan District Odessa |
| Bess |
Bessarabia |
| BOD |
Board of Directors |
| CH |
Clearing House (GRHS volunteers that coordinate work on acquiring, translating, and extracting research resources) |
| FHC |
Family History Center (the LDS branch libraries located throughout the world) |
| FHL |
Family History Library (the main LDS library in Salt Lake City) |
| GCRA |
Glückstal Colonies Research Association (focus on villages in the Glückstal colonies - associated with but not affiliated with GRHS) |
| GDO |
Grossliebental District Odessa |
| GP-PR |
Germans to Prussia - Poland to Russia |
| GR |
German from Russia or German-Russian |
| GRHS |
Germans from Russia Heritage Society |
| HFGR |
Heritage Foundation for Germans from Russia |
| HOP |
Hoffnungstal Odessa Parish |
| HR |
Heritage Review (GRHS quarterly publication) |
| KET |
Kherson, Ekatarinoslav, Taurida |
| K-RIG |
Kutschurgan Regional Interest Group |
| KRIM |
Crimea |
| LDS |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (commonly referred to as the Mormon Church) |
| NDSU |
North Dakota State University |
| OC |
Ort Coordinator (someone who specializes in researching specific German villages where Germans from Russia originated) |
| ODL |
Odessa Digital Library (often referred to as the "pixel" or Odessa3) |
| RIG |
Regional Interest Group (virtual groups bound together by an interest in a common region) |
| VC |
Village Coordinator (someone who specializes in researching specific German villages in Russia) |
| VRP |
Village Research Project (volunteers who support members in their research efforts - made up of CH, ACs, VCs & OCs ) |
