¹⁸Registers

A register on this site is a whole table. A chapter quotes the telling row and moves on; the register keeps every row, each with its own evidence level and, where we hold one, its source. Some rows are better covered than others, and the register shows it: a row with no source attached stays in the table, marked as such. Each register takes in its entire collection, so the page cannot fall behind the research as it grows.

The performance register has 192 rows, which can be sorted by date, venue phase and evidence level. By phase, 147 were Dodorama nights and 45 came under WORM; by evidence level, 185 are confirmed and 7 probable. The confirmed nights at the address run from the opening concert of 13 February 1994¹ to the concert billed as the last there, on 8 March 2003². A few later or unlocated attributions stay in the table with their venue marked unresolved, so a correction is never quietly lost. The whole list is in the performance register, and the nights themselves are told in the Dodorama and WORM era.

The discography lists 13 releases. Each comes with its label, its catalogue number if one was issued, its recording date, and a note of whether the release itself names Dodorama or WORM. Ten of the thirteen do. The other three are WORM-label or related items, and their recording location at the address is not established; they stay in the table with that limit spelled out. You will find them in the discography, next to the WORM chapter.

The acts register has 35 entries, each with its type and country of origin. The core is Dutch and American, but the list reaches out through England, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Spain, and as far as Konono No.1 from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The list shows how widely one room on a Rotterdam corner booked its acts over the venue's nine years. For some entries we have biographical sources; for others the search is still open, and the table says which. The acts register sits beside the same Dodorama and WORM era.

The occupant register has 20 resident spans, each with its unit, its role, its dates and how well that row is supported. It keeps three kinds of silence apart, each labelled: an address book that was never published, an occupant not yet recovered in the record, and a page we have not yet read. A gap such as 1924 to 1927 appears as exactly that, never as a blank line. The register can be checked against documents like the address-book page below, a directory printed every year that fixes who was at the corner in a given year.

The occupant register gives the full occupancy table and explains how the gaps are handled; the families behind it appear in the first era, in Families Above the Benches.

The relationship graph has 45 links. They cover marriages and parentage, siblings and descent, the founding of firms, directorships and jobs, successions, and six links that tie each firm to the building for a stated span. Each link is marked confirmed or probable, with its supporting reference where we hold one. The relationships register lays them out, alongside the closing era's account of how the whole web was pieced together.

The timeline has 44 dated turning points. It begins with the laying out of the 's-Gravendijk dyke in 1358, whose line the street still follows, and ends with the current owners buying the ground-floor dwelling on 1 July 2019¹. Each point links to the evidence behind it and shows how firm that is. The list holds turning points only, not every dated event, so someone arriving from a search engine can see the shape of the whole span at a glance. The timeline sits with the closing era.

The next page turns to the sources behind these rows, and to what survives of each in the copies we keep.