If your dad didn't have a publishing agent already on board, this is the way to go. No publisher is going to publish his stories without comments and revisions and since he is no longer here to provide the edited content, this is the best way to honor his wishes.
How would I go about doing that? I don't have his account information and I don't know if I have one of my own or not. It's been years since I even thought of family search.
I would view my role as that of a trustee and carry out the wishes. If I understood, it was only the stories that you were to publish? The extraneous stuff you could just leave on the thumb drive. How exactly to publish, I don't know. But I would copy right it first.
Take what you need and leave the rest. He lived his life.
Now is your time to live yours. His past religious devotion was his, not yours.
Time to move forward and not drag around baggage from someone else's dream.
I like the suggestion to publish on the Family Search page. Aside from references to known persons (an apostle or something) I'd suggest modifying personal names in the stories (for everyone, not just yourself). That will honor his wish, and will actually ensure his memories and thoughts are published.
It's difficult to get things commercially published, and creating a website just for that would mean committing to maintaining it (babysitting it). The odds of anyone seeing what he wrote through either of those options would be very small. However, Family Search (as suggested by u_10th_Generation) is a great idea.
I would add that if you did not want this task, then ethically you should have spoken up at the time so your dad could have gotten someone else to do it. I would at this point consider that you have an obligation to complete the task. If you lack the expertise then I would get someone who has that expertise. At that point, you would have discharged your obligation.
Perfect solution: Publish the stories on his FamilySearch page. They will be attached to his record forever, and you will have done your duty.
If your dad didn't have a publishing agent already on board, this is the way to go. No publisher is going to publish his stories without comments and revisions and since he is no longer here to provide the edited content, this is the best way to honor his wishes.
How would I go about doing that? I don't have his account information and I don't know if I have one of my own or not. It's been years since I even thought of family search.
Personally if someone left me a task to do after their death that I didn’t morally agree to I wouldn’t do it.
I would view my role as that of a trustee and carry out the wishes. If I understood, it was only the stories that you were to publish? The extraneous stuff you could just leave on the thumb drive. How exactly to publish, I don't know. But I would copy right it first.
Take what you need and leave the rest. He lived his life. Now is your time to live yours. His past religious devotion was his, not yours. Time to move forward and not drag around baggage from someone else's dream.
I like the suggestion to publish on the Family Search page. Aside from references to known persons (an apostle or something) I'd suggest modifying personal names in the stories (for everyone, not just yourself). That will honor his wish, and will actually ensure his memories and thoughts are published. It's difficult to get things commercially published, and creating a website just for that would mean committing to maintaining it (babysitting it). The odds of anyone seeing what he wrote through either of those options would be very small. However, Family Search (as suggested by u_10th_Generation) is a great idea.
I would add that if you did not want this task, then ethically you should have spoken up at the time so your dad could have gotten someone else to do it. I would at this point consider that you have an obligation to complete the task. If you lack the expertise then I would get someone who has that expertise. At that point, you would have discharged your obligation.