Gilbertson is my mother’s maiden name and as she had given me copies of various original certificates she had inherited I started to research her side of the family by tracing the Gilbertsons. I was able to quickly go back to my great-grandfather Alexander Gilbertson, a warehouseman or dock checker, as he appears on the births, marriage and death certificates of his son, my grandfather Alexander. I also have a rememberance card from his own burial service and details of the family lair at Seafield Cemetery, Edinburgh. He died aged 40 at 24 Burlington Street, Leith on the 14th September 1916 and was buried on 16th. To go further back I then started looking at ScotlandsPeople.com for his birth and marriage certificates and in Census returns.
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