A List of Other Famous Mennonite Writers that Andrew Unger is Related To

For centuries (okay, maybe just a few decades), scholars have tried to figure out why there are so many Mennonite writers. Various theories have been proposed, but I’m going to throw out a new one – we’re all cousins. Simple. All the Mennonite writers you’ve heard of are related to each other – a lot of them anyway.

Using the Mennonite genealogy website Grandma Online, we looked up Andrew Unger’s relation to various other Mennonite authors. Let’s see the results. (This is real).

-Andrew Unger and David Bergen – 4th cousins

-Andrew Unger and Patrick Friesen – 3rd cousins twice removed

-Andrew Unger and Matt Groening – 5th cousins once removed

-Andrew Unger and Paul Hiebert – 3rd cousins thrice removed

-Andrew Unger and Rhoda Janzen – 4th cousins twice removed

-Andrew Unger and Casey