Going from Iphoto 9.5.1 mavericks to Yosemite photos

I am thinking about updating my imac to the new Yosemite, I really want to experience the new photos app. I do have many questions and concerns when it comes to the major migration. I have a precious iPhoto library that I do not want messed up. Right now I am running mavericks latest edition and iPhoto 9.5.1. My app store shows no update for iPhoto. It used to have it as an incompatible update but now it is gone. I know I need to update my iPhoto to 9.6.1 for a successful migration of my iPhoto library to the photos app. It shows iPhoto in the purchased list but the date on it is from November 2011, and there still is an update button, would I update it from there, after Yosemite update? The question is what is the exact process for this update so I wont lose all or any pictures and family videos from iPhoto? Its about 10 years worth of photos (220 gb) obviously I would back up my library on an exHD. But then, would I update my Imac to Yosemite? After update to Yosemite would I then open up the "app store" and hopefully find iPhoto as an update and update it to 9.6.1??? And then after that is updated, would I then open it up and make sure its all there, then open up "photos" app and let the migration begin to unfold?? I just am very worried that something might get messed up between iPhoto 9.5.1 and the new photos app, plus Im not sure how to update iPhoto if It is no longer available to update. why would apple do that?? I need some serious help and direction here. shoot!

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First of all, make sure you can revert to your current system before you upgrade. Make a full Time Machine backup, just in case. That will let you revert your Mac to the way it is now, see: OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version
know I need to update my iPhoto to 9.6.1 for a successful migration of my iPhoto library to the photos app.
Once you upgrade to Yosemite, you should be able to install iPhoto 9.6.1, since iPhoto is showing on your Purchases tab of the App Store.
After the update to MacOS X 10.10.3, sign into the App Store and install iPhoto from the Purchases tab of the AppStore. If the update does not work, move the iPhoto application to the Trash (don't empty it). Read the Purchases page of the App Store by pressing ⌘R, then reinstall iPhoto.
Before you upgrade to Photos, prepare your Photos library. Some features are not yet supported in Photos.
You cannot add locations to photos in the Photos.app, so add all missing locations to your photos while still using iPhoto.
You cannot batch change titles and captions. If you still have titles to add, do that, while running iPhoto.
Photos has no events, only albums. So your smart albums based on smart rules for events will not work. You may want add keywords to the photos in these albums, so you can define a new rule based on keywords.
Apparently Photos has a bug, that lets it show the times for photos taken in a different timezone incorrectly. If you have many photos taken in different timezones, you may want to wait with the migration, until this has been fixed.

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