Let C be a projective Gorenstein curve over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. A generalized linear system on C is a pair (I, ǫ) consisting of a torsion-free, rank-1 sheaf I on C and a map of vector spaces ǫ : V → Γ(C, I). If the system is nondegenerate on every irreducible component of C, we associate to it a 0-cycle W , its Weierstrass cycle. Then we show that for each one-parameter family of curves C t degenerating to C, and each family of linear systems (L t , ǫ t ) along C t , with L t invertible, degenerating to (I, ǫ), the corresponding Weierstrass divisors degenerate to a subscheme whose associated 0-cycle is W . We show that the limit subscheme contains always an "intrinsic" subscheme, canonically associated to (I, ǫ), but the limit itself depends on the family L t .