Dale Eesley (the genealogist)

Dale Eesley is the keeper of the Eesley-Wildermuth tree on FamilySearch — the canonical structured record this archive cross-references against and the source future Eesley genealogists should consult first. The downloadable GEDCOM export of his tree is available as a document in this archive: 3,428 individuals across 1,510 families.

Chuck Eesley collaborates with Dale on the same FamilySearch tree. The two of them treat the FamilySearch one as canonical against the parallel Ancestry.com version. Where this archive has had to choose between Bean’s 1985 register, the GEDCOM, and Robert Earl’s 1990 Heritage on a date or relationship question, the GEDCOM Dale maintains has won most of the close calls.

Other details withheld — living.

Distinct from Dale Dudley Eesley (1906–1939)

This page is for the living Dale Eesley who maintains the FamilySearch tree. The earlier Eesley generation includes Dale Dudley Eesley (5 August 1906 – 14 July 1939) — Will Eesley’s brother, Charles Leonard’s son, the fiancé who drowned at Black Lake fishing on a summer afternoon at age 32. The two Dale Eesleys are distinct people separated by three generations.

Source: Dale Eesley’s FamilySearch tree; the structured-record collaboration referenced across this archive.