grandmother Eva Salinas and my father Medardo Salinas, Sr .were first cousins. My grandfather Pedro Salinas and Eva Salinas's father Cecilio Salinas, Jr. were brothers -- he would be Eva Longoria's maternal great-grandfather. Most of this whole clan as noted on the Geneology Magazine hailed from Brooks county -- Falfurrias. My father, Medardo Salinas, Sr. also was born in Falfurrias -- Brooks County. Eva Longoria -- give me a shout out! I live in San Antonio. I guess that makes us 3rd cousins? I think this PBS program has started something -- it is super. You're welcome! Yes, does sound like you're at least a 4-5th cousin. Shout out for San Antonio! I have a cousin there from Flores branch of family. He's a children's dentist. Tonight's episode will again feature a segment on Eva. It's sad that she doesn't speak Spanish, but great that she's aware of family history. It was sad when the man told her that Ponciano was killed by a Texas Ranger, and she didn't know about that- also an uncle or cousin Antonio I think was his name, who was killed execution style by those rinches! Eva speaks fluent Spanish and is learning French. My brother's girls all learned Spanish as children. Their mother and father made sure of it. They all worked as teenager and were always taught to respect their elders, etc.. We all have known about that ancestor (Jesus Bazan) but he was a first cousin of Eva's gg grandfather Ponciano Longoria