puffin> depending whether or not the original parish register was microfilmed depends on whether or not the possibility of an image appearing online occurs. Say for example > I can find some images of baptismal pages from early London Churches, and they are there because someone in a genealogical society or a member of public has loaded the microfilm or microfische into a digital microfilm reader and saved as a jpeg. They in turn submit the page online or the subscription sites elect to put extracts or entire registers online. So yes and no....... However if you want an image of something inparticular that was microfilmed you can apply through the LDS site and be put on a holding list and about 6 weeks later an image will arrive. Equally you can toddle off to the LDS centres or genealogy societies and order in the film then use the digital copying readers yourself ... paying for the privilige.... At large though the christenings are just a one line entry usually unreadable and scrawled accrossed a page willy nilly but then some registers are beautifully written with every detail imaginable contained within...... So I hope that this enlightens you a little....
I wish to further add that I am doing research in South Africa this month , and , that country had minimal microfilming done.... but folk of late have been going around finding the registers and digitally photographing them then transcribing the material online. But it would be tooooo costly to put entire registers from SA online. Also with SA the LDS site has the films already loaded but one must read the whole flipping image set which takes forever to load ... and there is no way in heck I would have the patience to read and wait , transcribe, load , wait , read and transcribe as some folk do.......
