Upgrade Ubuntu 15.10 to 16.04 while keeping my gmail address

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Donald Parsons
<donaldparsons579 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Previously when I upgraded Ubuntu I lost my gmail address because on trying
> to sign up for the new  gmail afterwards, it said "that name is already
> taken."
> Is there a way around this?

It sounds like you tried to sign up for a new email account instead of
logging into your old one.

OS/distro updates have nothing to do with online email providers.

HTH.
MR