No Lizzie, the update didn't 'take longer than expected', i.e. from December 2007 till now, because the site was available at least two weeks ago. Either a few wrong buttons got pressed when the Holbeach update was loaded within the last few days, or some sad illegitimate body with nothing better to do in their life decided to do a bit of hacking.
For the record, the Lincolnshire marriage index 1837 onwards is nothing to do with Lincolnshire County Council.
I'm not sure who was providing the funds though I think it was central government, but several years ago councils/registration services were offered money to put BMD indexes online. Some areas did this and you can see the results at
http://www.ukbmd.co.uk/Lincolnshire declined the option, so Anne Cole and some of her friends decided to produce their own version. This is based
only on those parish registers which have been deposited at Lincolnshire Archives, so will not include marriages which took place in registry offices nor in the majority of non-conformist chapels/churches.
Whilst on the subject of transcribing and parish registers, nowadays there is neither reason nor excuse for anyone to simply sit on their backsides and let others do the work because most of the PRs which need transcribing for FreeREG can be sent out on CD. Yes, some parishes are larger than others, in which case volunteer to do just one year, but surely you can all spare the time to transcribe 100 entries.
Start here
http://freereg.rootsweb.com/
