You would go to your local recorder office usually found at the local hall of records, its the same place you apply for a marriage license and get copies of past birth & deaths in the county , get a passport. This place is often next to your local court house.

a local social security office has your social number through application. The D M V has our licenses on file. Marriage certificates are gotten from the local tax registry department. A birth certificate is obtained by the hospital you were born in. Use the blue pages in the phone book-those are the gov’t and local state offices. Look up-marriage license -and the book will give a number. you can go from there.

but it should be : Bureau of Vital Statistics and Records or Department of Vital Records