Hi Carolyn I wouldn't hold your breath! What Ancestry are able to digitise and add to their collections depends on negotiations with the "owners" of the records. The London PRs are the registers held by the London Metropolitan Archives and the Guildhall Library in their capacity as the diocesan record offices for the relevant areas. Their decision to go into partnership with Ancestry is partly due to a desire to ensure greater access to their holdings and partly commercial (as it provides important income to allow them to continue their vital work in times of budgetary constraint). Other record offices follow a different path - Essex is a good example, as it has chosen to institute its own on-line PR service via SEAX (thereby deriving income directly). But whilst CofE records are, in a sense, public ones (as the Church of England is the established church), Catholic ones are "private" and belong wholly to the Catholic church, who have no duty to deposit them in record offices, or to make them available in any other way. So Catholic records are all over the place and often very hard to access. Whether or not Ancestry will ever choose to enter into negotiations with the very large number of authorities which "own" them, let alone whether those negotiations might bear fruit is anyone's guess. Like I said, don't hold your breath! As to Westminster, the PRs for those parishes within the old City of Westminster (as opposed to the modern London Borough) are held by the City of Westminster Archive Centre. I have no idea whether Ancestry have approached them and, if so, what the current state of negotiations is. Whatever the answer, in the absence of any news I think it's another case of don't hold your breath. Hope this helps Caroline > It's a while since I have seen or read about the possibility of > catholic baptism and burial records for the London area going online > somewhere. > Can anyone advise if this is likely and if so where and when please, > I think I read that they may be added to the London PR's at Ancestry. > But then again this may have been wishful thinking on my part. > > I am also waiting not so patiently, for the Westminster records to be > added to Ancestry, does anyone have an update for these records > please? > > Many thaks for your help. > Carolyn in NZ >