Genealogy
Steven has practiced as a specialist in legal and probate genealogical research for the past 35 years. He was admitted to membership of Accredited Genealogists Ireland in 1991 and sits on its governing council. He is a former president of the Association.
He is the current chairman of the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS), a learned society founded in 1936, with a worldwide membership. He is a founding member of the Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations (CIGO), serving twice as its chairman. In 2012 he appeared in ‘Dead Money’, a six-part RTE series based exclusively on research undertaken by his legal genealogy firm, Massey & King. Each episode told the story of searches for relatives for a person who had died intestate.