Persingula Gachupin Family Tree

Benigna Medina Madelena Family Tree - Jemez Pueblo

Disclaimer: This "family tree" is a best effort on our part to determine who the potters are in this family and arrange them in a generational order. The general information available is questionable so we have tried to show each of these diagrams to living members of each family to get their input and approval, too. This diagram is subject to change should we get better info.

Benigna Medina was born and raised at Zia Pueblo, learning to make pottery the Zia way as she grew up. Then she married Ramon Madelena from Jemez Pueblo and moved to his home there. She infused the Jemez potters of the time with Zia methods, forms and designs, strengthening a very weak Jemez tradition: the Spanish had virtually destroyed all Jemez traditions 200 years before and recovery was very hard.