Possible Clues:

• Enactors (anag)
• Can, anyhow, set store by being higher up the tree than you
• His descendants left no traces, sadly
• Forefather? No trace, unfortunately, around the south
• One who came earlier with an engineered Escort
• Fianc�'s to rein in part for grandmother, say
• It sounds as if one is for Father
• Forebear -- found no traces
• A chick originally in nest -- or older bird?
• Trace son in order to reveal forefather