# How do I recover sightings from another account?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-i-recover-sightings-from-another-account/20599>\
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**Created:** [February 24, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-i-recover-sightings-from-another-account/20599 "2021-02-24T23:36:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![junior84](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/junior84/32/17968_2.png) [@junior84](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/junior84)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-i-recover-sightings-from-another-account/20599/1 "2021-02-24T23:36:34Z")

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Ok this might sound weird, but, please, I need some help on this.

Last year, on 26.ago.2020, I had a previous iNat account ([here](https://www.inaturalist.org/people/carlos_panta)) with a gmail account a friend created for me. It only lasted that day, because my then-PC broke and I lost the account (both here and in Gmail). I never had a password as I only accesed with Google, and I had to create another one on my new PC (this account).  
So, pretty recently, I found this [sighting](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57679279) which I recognized as one of my photos, and I added a tentative ID (genus _Tetramerium_) in hopes of resolving the longstanding mystery of this plant’s identity.  
After a few searches, and with the help of this very descriptive [PDF](http://geoservidorperu.minam.gob.pe/geoservidor/Archivos/Mapa/Lambayeque/Memoria_Descriptiva_Flora.pdf), I managed to ID the elusive plant (_Tetramerium wasshausenii_).

**Proof it’s my account:**

- [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68158271](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68158271)
- [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69023083](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69023083)
- [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69693596](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69693596)
- [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66627466](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66627466)
- [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68760290](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68760290)

> All taken the same day or the inmediate two days after, as you can see by the date.

More proof can be seen in notes of the original sighting, which [references my _Dicliptera peruviana_ sighting.](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57679279)

What I want is to be able to access the observations of said lost account and transfering them to mine, so I can have this taxa attributed to me (as I am the original author of the sighting).

Thanks, and apologies for the typos, English is not my first language. :)

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-i-recover-sightings-from-another-account/20599/2 "2021-02-25T01:00:42Z")

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iNat staff can merge accounts. Can you please email [help@inaturalist.org](mailto:help@inaturalist.org) with this information? I can then look into it.

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-i-recover-sightings-from-another-account/20599/3 "2021-02-25T01:00:49Z")

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