In a message dated 23/08/2007 08:50:07 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Rather than purchasing records on fiche or CD, here in Sydney I'll need to order an LDS film and your advice seems to indicate that the BT's and PR's will have lots of detail for the period I am looking at. David: Yes, getting a film of the original registers from the LDS is perhaps the best way of going about things for you. However, the BTs have not been filmed as far as I know. In any case, in Durham Diocese the BTs do not normally go back any further than the 1760s - ie just one more generation beyond where you have already reached. Hence you would be better concentrating on the parish registers. One LDS film will probably go further back than that. If films of the H M Wood transcripts are available (they have been filmed and copies are available here but I don't know whether it was the LDS that did it) then they may be a lot easier to use. Geoff Nicholson Geoff Nicholson