* Facts

[ColeValleyGirl]

P.S. Your definition of youngsters is a bit imprecise... How young do you think we all are?

[tatewise]

Ditto. But I'll take it as a compliment that I'm still a youngster despite being in my 8th decade

BTW: It can be done in FH and in several different ways.
Most other genealogy software is much the same unless you know different?

[Mark1834]

Prof Dame Sue Black pointed out in her excellent Royal Institution lecture last night that its all deterioration from your mid-30s . Doubt that there’s a single FHUG contributor on the rising side of the curve...

[fhtess65]

I'm curious about that too...being in my 6th decade...and always grateful for the feedback and advice I get here...

P.S. Your definition of youngsters is a bit imprecise... How young do you think we all are?

[ColeValleyGirl]

I'll confess to my heart being 21 but the rest of me is in my 7th decade.

[ADC65]

Doubt that there’s a single FHUG contributor on the rising side of the curve...

I'm 39 !!

(In hexadecimal )

[Robert Jacobs]

I'll be 84 next month and I keep wondering when I'm going to grow up.

[Woodg]

I'll be 84 next month and I keep wondering when I'm going to grow up.

Hopefully you never grow up! More fun that way.

[ergo]

My original question was:
Why can't there be one category, with the opportunity to add as many or as few fields as you wish?
Derek

[ergo]

I still think you are youngsters. If I make it, I';; be 90 in May.
Derek

[ColeValleyGirl]

My original question was:
Why can't there be one category, with the opportunity to add as many or as few fields as you wish?
Derek

Answered in the first response to you.

FH closely follows the GEDCOM specification and by doing so makes migration to and from other products fairly easy.
The more FH strays from the specification the more difficult such migration becomes.

Many other products distinguish between Events and Attributes as defined in GEDCOM.
In practice, there is little to stop you from using an Attribute as both an Event and an Attribute, except that the narrative Sentence Template definition may be a challenge to cope with both scenarios.
You could also define both a custom Event and a custom Attribute with the same or similar name. FH warns against it but it is allowed and fully supported.

There are several extra standard GEDCOM fields available for facts but they are not shown on the Facts tab so the All tab must be used. Adding custom fields would jeopardise migration to other products.
The recommended approach is to add labelled text to the Note field as explained in the FHUG Knowledge Base article Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates under Custom Fact Fields.

In brief, for FH, full GEDCOM compliance is a major design goal (hence the two categories), but there are ways to achieve what you want within that constraint.