Answers.Body: <p>Do you happen to know how it was deleted? Because there's actually two kinds of deleting - one is permanent, one is not.</p>
  
  <p>Try the advanced search and turn on the option to search in the trash.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/3lttg.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/3lttg.jpg" alt="Search trash"></a></p>
  
  <p>If they have been permanently deleted, then you won't be able to bring them back in the software - you'll need to find as much of the information elsewhere (backup of your database, emails you got from the system, etc) and manually recreate as much as you can.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>If you have access to your log_civicrm tables in the database (assuming you have logging turned on) then you should be able to dig out info about a contact who was Deleted (as opposed to just in Trash).</p>
  
  <p>The rows relating to the contact (and related rows in eg log_civicrm_address etc) are not deleted when a contact is actually deleted.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I have accidentally deleted a contact and need to get all their information back, how do I do this?</p>
  
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Title: Need to reinstall a deleted contact
ThreadText: # Need to reinstall a deleted contact
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-02-12)
  
  I have accidentally deleted a contact and need to get all their information back, how do I do this?
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-02-12. Score: 6
  
  Do you happen to know how it was deleted? Because there's actually two kinds of deleting - one is permanent, one is not.
  
  Try the advanced search and turn on the option to search in the trash.
  
  [![Search trash](https://i.sstatic.net/3lttg.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/3lttg.jpg)
  
  If they have been permanently deleted, then you won't be able to bring them back in the software - you'll need to find as much of the information elsewhere (backup of your database, emails you got from the system, etc) and manually recreate as much as you can.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2018-02-12. Score: 1
  
  If you have access to your log\_civicrm tables in the database (assuming you have logging turned on) then you should be able to dig out info about a contact who was Deleted (as opposed to just in Trash).
  
  The rows relating to the contact (and related rows in eg log\_civicrm\_address etc) are not deleted when a contact is actually deleted.
  
  
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