AncestryChanged

Unsafe

For thread safety, this property is not safe to read in an unsynchronized thread.

Event of:

Description:

Fires when the Instance/Parent property of the object or one of its ancestors is changed.

This event includes two parameters, child and parent. Child refers to the Instance whose Instance/Parent was actually changed. Parent refers to this Instance’s new Instance/Parent.

If you need to detect when an instance is destroyed via Instance/Destroy, consider the Instance/Destroying event instead.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
Name child	Type Instance	Default	Summary The `Instance` whose `Instance/Parent` has been changed.
Name parent	Type Instance	Default	Summary The new `Instance/Parent` of the `Instance` whose `Instance/Parent` was changed.

Code Samples

Instance.AncestryChanged

The below example would print “Part is now a child of Model”.

			
				Instance.AncestryChanged

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			local p = Instance.new("Part")
p.Parent = game.Workspace
p.AncestryChanged:Connect(function(child, parent)
    print(child.Name.." is now a child of "..parent.Name)
end)
p.Parent = Workspace.Model
		
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