diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/EmbeddedFileExtractorIngestModule.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/EmbeddedFileExtractorIngestModule.java
index 7e0d220f11..b7f6529786 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/EmbeddedFileExtractorIngestModule.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/EmbeddedFileExtractorIngestModule.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public final class EmbeddedFileExtractorIngestModule implements FileIngestModule
             } catch (SecurityException ex) {
                 logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Error initializing output dir: " + moduleDirAbsolute, ex); //NON-NLS
                 services.postMessage(IngestMessage.createErrorMessage(EmbeddedFileExtractorModuleFactory.getModuleName(), "Error initializing", "Error initializing output dir: " + moduleDirAbsolute)); //NON-NLS
-                throw new IngestModuleException(ex.getMessage());
+                throw new IngestModuleException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
             }
         }
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public final class EmbeddedFileExtractorIngestModule implements FileIngestModule
         try {
             fileTypeDetector = new FileTypeDetector();
         } catch (FileTypeDetector.FileTypeDetectorInitException ex) {
-            throw new IngestModuleException(ex.getMessage());
+            throw new IngestModuleException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
         }
 
         // initialize the extraction modules.
diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/SevenZipExtractor.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/SevenZipExtractor.java
index 44052df224..881e7c5fa4 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/SevenZipExtractor.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/embeddedfileextractor/SevenZipExtractor.java
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class SevenZipExtractor {
                 String details = NbBundle.getMessage(SevenZipExtractor.class, "EmbeddedFileExtractorIngestModule.ArchiveExtractor.init.errCantInitLib",
                         e.getMessage());
                 services.postMessage(IngestMessage.createErrorMessage(EmbeddedFileExtractorModuleFactory.getModuleName(), msg, details));
-                throw new IngestModuleException(e.getMessage());
+                throw new IngestModuleException(e.getMessage(), e);
             }
         }
         this.context = context;
diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/exif/ExifParserFileIngestModule.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/exif/ExifParserFileIngestModule.java
index de946ffd0f..b2ce0beca2 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/exif/ExifParserFileIngestModule.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/exif/ExifParserFileIngestModule.java
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ public final class ExifParserFileIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
         try {
             fileTypeDetector = new FileTypeDetector();
         } catch (FileTypeDetector.FileTypeDetectorInitException ex) {
-            throw new IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "ExifParserFileIngestModule.startUp.fileTypeDetectorInitializationException.msg"));
+            throw new IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "ExifParserFileIngestModule.startUp.fileTypeDetectorInitializationException.msg"), ex);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/filetypeid/FileTypeIdIngestModule.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/filetypeid/FileTypeIdIngestModule.java
index b3c09dfb81..956ddef89e 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/filetypeid/FileTypeIdIngestModule.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/filetypeid/FileTypeIdIngestModule.java
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public class FileTypeIdIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
         try {
             fileTypeDetector = new FileTypeDetector();
         } catch (FileTypeDetector.FileTypeDetectorInitException ex) {
-            throw new IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "FileTypeIdIngestModule.startUp.fileTypeDetectorInitializationException.msg"));
+            throw new IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "FileTypeIdIngestModule.startUp.fileTypeDetectorInitializationException.msg"), ex);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/photoreccarver/PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/photoreccarver/PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.java
index f848838d02..16ae16e4bd 100755
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/photoreccarver/PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/modules/photoreccarver/PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.java
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ final class PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
                 // Initialize job totals
                 initTotalsForIngestJob(jobId);
             } catch (SecurityException | IOException | UnsupportedOperationException ex) {
-                throw new IngestModule.IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.class, "cannotCreateOutputDir.message", ex.getLocalizedMessage()));
+                throw new IngestModule.IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.class, "cannotCreateOutputDir.message", ex.getLocalizedMessage()), ex);
             }
         }
     }
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ final class PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
         } catch (FileAlreadyExistsException ex) {
             // No worries.
         } catch (IOException | SecurityException | UnsupportedOperationException ex) {
-            throw new IngestModule.IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.class, "cannotCreateOutputDir.message", ex.getLocalizedMessage()));
+            throw new IngestModule.IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(PhotoRecCarverFileIngestModule.class, "cannotCreateOutputDir.message", ex.getLocalizedMessage()), ex);
         }
         return path;
     }
diff --git a/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java b/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java
index bb86774bbe..7d5ee1b5a4 100644
--- a/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java
+++ b/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ public final class KeywordSearchIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
         try {
             fileTypeDetector = new FileTypeDetector();
         } catch (FileTypeDetector.FileTypeDetectorInitException ex) {
-            throw new IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "KeywordSearchIngestModule.startUp.fileTypeDetectorInitializationException.msg"));
+            throw new IngestModuleException(NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "KeywordSearchIngestModule.startUp.fileTypeDetectorInitializationException.msg"), ex);
         }
         ingester = Server.getIngester();
         this.context = context;
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ public final class KeywordSearchIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
                     String details = NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "SolrConnectionCheck.Port");
                     logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "{0}: {1} {2}", new Object[]{msg, details, ex.toString()});
                     services.postMessage(IngestMessage.createErrorMessage(KeywordSearchModuleFactory.getModuleName(), msg, details));
-                    throw new IngestModuleException(msg);
+                    throw new IngestModuleException(msg, ex);
                 }
                 try {
                     kwsService.tryConnect(UserPreferences.getIndexingServerHost(), port);
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ public final class KeywordSearchIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
                     String details = ex.getMessage();
                     logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "{0}: {1} {2}", new Object[]{msg, details, ex.toString()});
                     services.postMessage(IngestMessage.createErrorMessage(KeywordSearchModuleFactory.getModuleName(), msg, details));
-                    throw new IngestModuleException(msg);
+                    throw new IngestModuleException(msg, ex);
                 }
             } else {
                 // for single-user cases need to verify connection to local SOLR service
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ public final class KeywordSearchIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
                     String msg = NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "KeywordSearchIngestModule.init.badInitMsg");
                     String details = NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "KeywordSearchIngestModule.init.tryStopSolrMsg", msg);
                     services.postMessage(IngestMessage.createErrorMessage(KeywordSearchModuleFactory.getModuleName(), msg, details));
-                    throw new IngestModuleException(msg);
+                    throw new IngestModuleException(msg, ex);
                 }
                 try {
                     // make an actual query to verify that server is responding
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ public final class KeywordSearchIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
                 } catch (KeywordSearchModuleException | NoOpenCoreException ex) {
                     throw new IngestModuleException(
                             NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "KeywordSearchIngestModule.init.exception.errConnToSolr.msg",
-                                    ex.getMessage()));
+                                    ex.getMessage()), ex);
                 }
 
                 // check if this job has any searchable keywords    
diff --git a/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/SearchEngineURLQueryAnalyzer.java b/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/SearchEngineURLQueryAnalyzer.java
index 17736afd4b..def7610d11 100644
--- a/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/SearchEngineURLQueryAnalyzer.java
+++ b/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/SearchEngineURLQueryAnalyzer.java
@@ -161,11 +161,11 @@ class SearchEngineURLQueryAnalyzer extends Extract {
             }
 
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new IngestModuleException("Was not able to load SEUQAMappings.xml: " + e.getLocalizedMessage()); //NON-NLS
+            throw new IngestModuleException("Was not able to load SEUQAMappings.xml: " + e.getLocalizedMessage(), e); //NON-NLS
         } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
-            throw new IngestModuleException("Unable to build XML parser: " + pce.getLocalizedMessage()); //NON-NLS
+            throw new IngestModuleException("Unable to build XML parser: " + pce.getLocalizedMessage(), pce); //NON-NLS
         } catch (SAXException sxe) {
-            throw new IngestModuleException("Unable to parse XML file: " + sxe.getLocalizedMessage()); //NON-NLS
+            throw new IngestModuleException("Unable to parse XML file: " + sxe.getLocalizedMessage(), sxe); //NON-NLS
         }
 
         NodeList nlist = xmlinput.getElementsByTagName("SearchEngine"); //NON-NLS
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ class SearchEngineURLQueryAnalyzer extends Extract {
             String message = NbBundle
                     .getMessage(this.getClass(), "SearchEngineURLQueryAnalyzer.init.exception.msg", XMLFILE);
             logger.log(Level.SEVERE, message, e);
-            throw new IngestModuleException(message);
+            throw new IngestModuleException(message, e);
         }
 
         loadConfigFile();
diff --git a/ScalpelCarver/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/scalpel/ScalpelCarverIngestModule.java b/ScalpelCarver/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/scalpel/ScalpelCarverIngestModule.java
index d6318a02de..2c7a140567 100644
--- a/ScalpelCarver/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/scalpel/ScalpelCarverIngestModule.java
+++ b/ScalpelCarver/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/scalpel/ScalpelCarverIngestModule.java
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class ScalpelCarverIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
         } catch (IOException ex) {
             String message = NbBundle.getMessage(this.getClass(), "ScalpelCarverIngestModule.startUp.exception.msg4");
             logger.log(Level.SEVERE, message, ex);
-            throw new IngestModuleException(message);
+            throw new IngestModuleException(message, ex);
         }
 
         initialized = true;