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Jeff Sand concur with Jay's comments. Anybody here who is at all interested in the history of the game (everybody?) should seriously consider joining. Just getting the e-mail digests from the general membership and the 19th century sub-group is worth the price of membership for me. While some of the sub-groups are not always active, when they are, they provide just about the only way to get ahold of current research in those areas. And come to think of it, it's a lot like the atmosphere here: there's a lot of info out there that isn't published and never will be, but that doesn't stop a hardy few from putting a lot of effort into researching and reporting on, for instance, yearly changes in the rules up to 1870.