Is it a good idea to migrate my 200 gb iphoto library to photos in yosemite?

Right now im in Mavericks in my imac, running iPhoto 9.5.1. It stores all that I have taken in the past 10 years. My imac now only has 30gb left. What steps do I take, im freaking out..I don't want to lose all my awesome family vacay, baby pics etc..
Here's what im planning and tell if this could be a big mistake.
I will backup my library as a copy on an external and then time machine it also. After that I will Update my system to Yosemite. After Yosemite update I will go to my app store and under purchases I will click the iPhoto update button (even though it says iphoto was purchased in 2011, Im assuming its still safe to update it that way because its the only way to update the app). Then after iPhoto is updated to 9.6.1, I will then open it up and make sure is was safely updated. Then after I make sure all of my stuff is in the new updated iPhoto I will try and migrate it to photos. (not sure of the exact steps on this) After I migrate the whole 200gb library to photos I will then pay for and turn on icloud 500gb storage and use my library from here on out through the cloud. Backing up the library off of icloud every so often. (keep in mind I will still have only about 30 gb left in my internal hd) This brings me to another question. Does anybody know how much extra space you need on your internal HD to migrate from iPhoto 200gb library to the photos app. I know in the end it wont take up any extra space on you internal HD, but I do know that it does take extra space during the migration but I just don't know how much extra..
Over all I need some feedback on my plan, I don't want to lose any pics or videos and I also just don't know where to go from here with continual photo storage.
Thanks Community!

Your plan is generally OK, but I would suggest a different approach, since you're so frazzled by it.
1. Update iPhoto first; check and backup the iPhoto Library;
2. Upgrade to Yosemite; This will prompt you to migrate to Photos, but you don't have to do it, so don't!
3. iPhoto 9.6.1 will remain in your Applications folder and you can continue to use it;
4. Learn more about Photos, it's features and how iCloud Photo Library really works (for example, once you turn it on, you won't need to download manually);
5. When you do feel you know enough about Photos, only then launch it to migrate your photos; after migration your iPhoto Library remains fully functional, in case you want to revert to using iPhoto, so that part should not worry you.
Thet biggest issue you have is the small amount of free space. You might want to address tha first, or locate your new Photos Library on an external drive as well, and only move it to your local drive when it's been optimized (or keep it on an external).

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