Can I import and keep folder structure?

I have thousands of pics and videos.  I'm willing to buy in to the whole iCloud experience (literally), but in my small experiments, I couldn't see how to import and KEEP the folders containing numerous pics.  For example, if I have 1000s of FAMILY pics, TRAVEL pics, and FRIEND pics, all in separate folders.   Can I import these pics (currently on Onedrive; I assume I can't import direct from Onedrive to iCloud.com?) keeping the separation and folder breakdown I worked so long to organize?  Every attempt I've made, strips the folder and throws all pics in together.  Yes, I know we can use clever tricks like geotags and dates to separate the photos to an extent.  But most of my photos don't contain that metadata.  And moreover, I've already manually done the work to my liking.  Any ideas?

Import your folder structure to iPhoto, and then migrate the iPhoto Library to Photos.
iPhoto will create an event for each folder you import and name it like the folder. You can simply drag the whole folder structure onto the iPhoto icon.
When you open the iPhoto Library in Photos, Photos will create an album for each iPhoto event.

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