Sources

Private Records

The following ladies and gentlemen have supported my research by providing me with a significant amount of data:
Manfred Aurand (Dietzhölztal), Eckhardt Behrendt, Netphen; Helga Christmann, Kaiserslautern; Michael Kraus, Hatzfeld; Roland Linde, Münster; Gerhard Moisel, Siegen; Andreas Saßmannshausen, Hilchenbach; Gustav Schneider, Bad Laasphe; Anne Schulte-Lefèbvre, Zürich; Wolfgang Sonneborn, Wuppertal; Günter Weller †, Kreuztal
Thank you very much!

Church records

Lutheran parishs

Berleburg (1785 - 1825)
Dodenau (1624 - 1875)

Calvinist parishs
- all until 1875 -

Arfeld (from 1676)
Berleburg (from 1621)
Birkelbach (from 1666)
Elsoff (from 1607)
Erndtebrück (from 1671)
Feudingen (from 1525)
Fischelbach (from 1644)
Girkhausen (from 1677)
Raumland (from 1658)
Laasphe (from 1583)
Schwarzenau (from 1854)
Weidenhausen (from 1657)
Wingeshausen (from 1680)

Roman Catholic parishs

Altastenberg (1785 - 1810, only Langewiese and Neuastenberg)

Berleburg (1850 - 1874)

Neuastenberg (1810 - 1875)

Winterberg (1759 - 1785, only Langewiese and Neuastenberg)

Züschen (1718-1810, only Mollseifen)

References

Details of political and church organization in Wittgenstein are described at GenWiki.

Church records from Elsoff are (as of 2011) deposited in Schwarzenau, those of Weidenhausen in Raumland.

There are no genealogical records of Pietists, Mennonites and the Church of Brethren.

Printed records

Aufnahme neuer Bürger: "Berleburger Stadt- rechte und Bürgerbuch", bearbeitet von Alfred Bruns, Hrg. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, 1985

Klaus Mengel, "Häuser in Berleburg, die den Brand vom 20./21.7.1825 überstanden haben ...", 2009

“Dorfbücher” (village books) often show the sequence of ownership for the old farms, but they don’t exist for every village. Example: Werner Wied (Hrg.) "Erndtebrück, ein Heimatbuch des obersten Edertales", 1977.

Further literature about Wittgenstein is listed in Bibliographie Wittgenstein.

“Ortsfamilienbücher” (village family books) do not exist for Wittgenstein itself, but only for some of the surrounding areas, as Asslar, Oberhörlen and Roth, Oberkirchen, Wallau/Lahn and Weifenbach.

Due to numerous genealogical connections between Wittgenstein and Siegerland, additional data can be found in the Siegerland volumes of Deutsches Geschlechterbuch.