This important, though short-lived, periodical (1898-1901) featured exhaustive transcriptions of the early records of Massachusetts, and particularly of the following Massachusetts counties and towns: Plymouth County, Bristol County, Kingston, Yarmouth, E. Yarmouth, Falmouth, Weymouth, and Bristol. Now collected in one book, each of the original volumes of the Advertiser is separately indexed, the combined indexes containing altogether well over 15,000 names. The data collected refers mainly to births, marriages, deaths, and wills of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.