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Here are a few of the things you’ll learn from the December 2010 Family Tree Magazine,
just out on newsstands (it’s available from ShopFamilyTree.com both in
print and as a digital
download):

• In the early 1900s, lamination—now an archival no-no—was a celebrated new tool at
  repositories nationwide. Thousands of historical documents were laminated, including
  the Emancipation Proclamation. Find out how archives are working with these documents
  in the December 2010 Genealogy Insider column. 

• About 125,000 US troops, both Army regulars and new volunteers, served in the Philippine
  Insurrection from 1899 to 1902. The 1900 US census has information on military personnel
  stationed in the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

  Read more in our December 2010 guide to records from America’s lesser-known military
  conflicts. 

• The Washington State Digital
  Archives holds more than 90 million records, with 28 million searchable online.
  Find more state genealogy resources in our guide to 75 of the best state sites for
  genealogy research (also
  online). 

• The Irish National Museum has a firkin of butter buried in a peat bog (once a common
  storage practice) in the late-17th or eary-18th century. The grayish substance no
  longer resembles butter. Brush up on butter in the December 2010 History Matters column. 

• To help kids learn about your family’s genealogy, you can get Hearth
  Song’s stick-on family tree wall mural to personalize with relatives’ names and
  photos. Get more kid-friendly genealogy ideas in the December 2010 article Legacy
  Lessons.

• Some 250,000 Scots-Irish are thought to have arrived in the United States between
  1717 and the American Revolution, with later waves in the 1740s, around 1754, and
  between 1771 and 1775. Many headed for central Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah Valley
  of Virginia, and the Carolinas, eventually migrating into and across the Appalachians.
  

Learn how to trace these ancestors (also called Ulster Scots) in our December
2010 guide to Scots-Irish Roots.

• Most PCs come with Window Movie Maker, which makes it easy to turn digital photos
  and videos into family movies. See a tutorial in the December 2010 Toolkit.