Check the deactivated widgets on the Appearance > Widgets page. Sometimes during transfers they come over a bit wonky. But usually they get saved to the deactivated widgets.
JD
Did you move over the complete database and all of your WordPress files?
The text widgit is there is it the actual content that is not
Hm… you might just have to copy and paste from your old site.
I’m trying to figure out how to see the old site, we backed it up
but I don’t know how to view it
Where did you have the old website hosted?
Same place as the new site.
we just switched the site.
Where did you save the old website to?