In 1911, they established their motherhouse in Chicago, where there was a large Lithuanian population.
The Lithuanian population appears to be relatively homogeneous, without apparent genetic differences among ethnic subgroups.
Due to the addition of further Polish regions, the percentage of Lithuanian population was diluted.
After Poles acquired the town and its surroundings, the Lithuanian population of the region was subject to various repressions.
The Lithuanian Jewish population may exhibit a genetic founder effect.
The name comes from an approximation for the Lithuanian population.
In the years 1710 and 1711, half of the Lithuanian population of about 190,000 died.
The second theory proposed that the first Lithuanian population of the territory which later became Lithuania Minor appeared only after the war had ended.
Lithuanian population presumably grew after the wars ended with the Treaty of Melno in 1422.
Today it is 14,000 out of a total Lithuanian population of 3.6 million.