RootsMagic 4+ Built-In Fact Types

2023-05-22 updated to RM9

The built-in fact types for RM4 and later can be found in the FactTypeTable with FactTypeID less than 1000. User-defined/custom types are assigned values of 1000 and higher by the program when created. Between RM4 and RM9, only the 902-Associations fact type has been added. There may have been changes in Sentence templates and Flags (latter might be related to 32-bit vs 64-bit numbers). And the UTCModDate column has been added.

Following is a summary of the RM9 Built-in fact types in order of FactTypeID. note the clustering of “vital” facts (1-5 or 6 et al scattered), religious facts (7-14 except 28-Religion), citizenship (15-18 plus others), “family” (300 series except 510-Separation), unconventionals (90x series). These clusters may be a holdover from some early concept for sequencing the listing of events in other than chronological order. And the invisible-to-the-user FactTypeID appears to be the primary sort key in RM9 when the Edit Person option “Sort facts by” > “Fact type” is chosen – a seemingly odd result when intuitively one expects an alphabetical sort by fact Name.