This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wkQBAIB/2463 Message Board Post: Does anyone know the story of the birth of Theodor Pasternak who was born 1628 in Nordenburg, E.Prussia? His father was Count Friedrich Gustav Oxenstierna, b.1609 in Sweden. His mother was a Pasternak, so he was illegitimate. One of his descendants was Maria Helena Pasternak born in Jozioken, E. Prussia, who married Georg Joachim Boretius, b. 1604 in Aweiden and Pastor there.