Oceana County formed in the year 1831, is named so as it borders the Lake Michigan, the fresh water "ocean". Hart is the county seat. With a total area of 1,306.73 sq mi, the county has a population of around 26.5K people with marvelous combination of races including White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others with more than 10K households and 7.2K families.

Being a compilation of vast and varied data on marriage particulars, census, death news, colonization and ancestral SSN, naturalization minutiae, property deeds, armed service, birth, civil war particulars, civil court data, separation decree information, probates and many other details the Oceana County records index makes it possible for everyone to find the most desired records right away from the computers at own comfort.