I had emailed SEAX asking why they were copying PR's starting with the beginning years instead of c1837 and going backwards, also (as I had seen they had indexed some PR's) whether they could put those online meanwhile. Thought the response might be of interest to all: Thank you for your email. We decided to digitise the older parish registers initially as they are generally harder to read and we felt that the quality of the images that we obtain would be of more use in reading these particular registers. However, we are currently nearing the end of a very large project to digitise our post-1700 registers. We cannot yet say when they will be made available on SEAX but we hope it will be later this year. If you like to contact us again in a few months, we may have more definite news by then. Indexes are usually compiled by private individuals so there may be copyright implications; we have no plans to digitise them.