ICloud contacts are all gone

Does anybody know how to get your iCloud contacts back after they are gone. They just vanished on me on all devices and on iCloud.com and I did not delete them. I have turned the iCloud switch on and off again and restarted my phone. My contact lists on both iOS devices, Macbook, and iCloud.com just disapeared along with my notes. They only thing I still have is my photo stream and email messages.
Thanks

You might want to give it some time to see if it's just a server glitch that will correct itself. Otherwise, you may be able to restore them from your iCloud backup by following Winston Churchill's user tip here: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4841.

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If you didn't syncing the with iCloud prior to losing them, they would not be on icloud.com. (You can double-check by going to icloud.com from your computer browser, signing into your account, then clicking Contacts.)
Assuming they aren't on icloud.com, your only option would be to try restoring them from your backup. If you are backing up to your computer using iTunes, you can resotore your backup by connect your phone to your comptuer, opening iTunes, then going to File>Devices>Restore from backup.

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Log into icloud.com and then click on the Contacts icon. If the list is empty, then it's gone.

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I don't think the iPhone is really designed for people to be switching from one Apple ID to another so when you do so you may experience problems. You have two options on the iPhone for where you can be accessing contacts, from iCloud and the iPhone itself. You can also pull contacts off of a SIM card but they are then stored on the iPhone and not accessed from the SIM card.
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1. Go to Settings > iCloud
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You need to check other places where your contacts may be stored:
- iTunes/iCloud back up
- iCloud if you synced them to it

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
Double entries are possibly a result of your contacts being listed once as on your mac and again as in iCloud.
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Move your Mac (On My Mac) contacts to your iCloud account.

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