Warning: Importing Group “Group Name”

Today in the process of a SharePoint migration I encounter several Warnings in the logs. Warning: User or group xxxx cannot be resolved.

The problem is every security group that has the ID’s with the warning above do not come over on the import, which shows up as a warning in the import log as.

Warning: Importing Group <Group Name>

The SQL query below when run on the content DB will return all groups that have the owner ID’s specified in the warning.

select * from groups with (nolock) where owner = XXXX