Cornelia Carstens:  

Graduated S.F. High School Winter, 1969. At the time I was already working in a Law Office in S.F. I had worked there during my Senior Year. I continued to work there after graduation and started a Legal Secretarial Course at, I believe it was Pierce College. I found that I was wasting my time at Pierce, I wasn't learning anything new and I started working full time at the Law Office. Negri, Burrell, Risley and Schwartz. Still 18 I moved out on my own. I married at the age of 20 and we had 3 children together. All of them now in their 30's and living on their own. I spent 13 years at home raising my children and then divorced and went back to work. From 1985 until 2003 I worked for U.D. Registry Inc while raising my children on my own. I traveled to different courts for the company to abstract information out of court files. I loved the job and hanging around courthouses. The company was sold in 2003 to a larger company back East. Just to go back a little bit, 1998, U.D. Registry did send me to Washington State to expand the corp. I lived in Washington State until I moved back to California in 2002. Washington State was pretty exciting. Very lonely at first until I started getting to know people. It was a great experience. While living in Tacoma, Washington just outside of Seattle I received a call from the State of California. I have a grandson who was one year old and needed a place to live. I had to step up to the plate and he was delivered to me in Washington Oct, 2000 at 1 1/2 years old. I agreed to adopt him. Joey and I returned to California on May 1st, 2002 and the Final Adoption took place on May 2nd, 2002. We made our home in Santa Clarita for a short time and then settled in Lancaster, Ca - 2003 and have remained here ever since. Joey is now ten years old, just...Expand for more