When using Former Positions how are records related to the Contact handled?

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When a contact is moved from one account to another account, where does the related object records associated to that contact go?

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Former Positions tracks changes to a Contact's Title and/or Account, enabling you to follow an individual's career. You can improve data quality by moving inactive contacts to a bucket account. The solution is like LinkedIn's Experience section of a profile.

When a contact is moved from one account to another, no other data related to that contact is altered in any way. Opportunities, cases, activity history and all other related records that were associated with that contact are not moved or touched in any way. Former Positions only logs the following:

Field Label	Field Name	Field Description
Account	Account	The former account the contact was associated with.
Contact	Contact	The contacts full name.
Current Account	Current_Account	The account the contact is now associated with.
Current Position Start	Current_Position_Start	The start date of the contacts current position.
End Date	End_Date	The date the contact left the former position.
Start Date	Start_Date	The date the contact started in the former position.
Title	Title	The former title the contact held in the former position.

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