« Reply #176 on: Thursday 12 January 12 02:43 GMT (UK) »
I suspect they had to go pay per view to be able to digitise the remaining registers, what with budget constraints etc. They had a notice on the site for some time saying they were exploring ways of making the remaining registers available online but apart from a large grant from somewhere, this was probably the only way they could continue to digitise. It's not that dis-similar to other pay per view sites who don't upload everything in one go. I doubt we would have seen any of the post 1600s/1700s registers available online for free as they could have done this prior to making it all available pay per view.
While I can feel for anyone who has subscribed requiring post-1837 material, perhaps, as others have mentioned they were going to do earlier in the topic, it may have been better to have waited for the material to appear in light of the delays in making the site pay per view in the first place.
Not all post-1837 registers appear in the catalogue against individual parishes anyway and could well still be with the incumbant, which will mean they won't be available digitised until deposited with the RO. Sadly one or two that I would like to see do not seem available.
(KENT) Lingwell, Rayment (BUCKS) Read, Hutchins (SRY) Costin, Westbrook (DOR) Gibbs, Goreing (DUR) Green (ESX) Rudland, Malden, Rouse, Boosey (FIFE) Foulis, Russell (NFK) Johnson, Farthing, Purdy, Barsham (GLOS) Collett, Morris, Freebury, May, Kirkman (HERTS) Winchester, Linford (NORTHANTS) Bird, Brimley, Chater, Wilford, Read, Chapman, Jeys, Marston, Lumley (WILTS) Arden, Whatley, Batson, Gleed, Greenhill (SOM) Coombs, Watkins (RUT) Stafford (BERKS) Sansom, Angel, Young, Stratton, Weeks, Day