As a part of continuing research on the New Guinea community on Nantucket, NEAAAL is creating a relational database that will identify every resident of the neighborhood from its rise in the late 18th century to its decline in the late 19th following the collapse of the whaling industry. The database chiefly draws from census and deed records and will facilitate analysis of the demographics of the community of New Guinea as well as yield valuable information about labor, trends in land ownership, participation in commercial activities, and other social institutions. This project is being conducted with members of the Fiske Center’s Digital Archaeology Laboratory under the guidance of Dr. John Steinberg and Dr. Douglas Bolender.