HT204264 Will iCloud Photo Library allow family sharing?

I recently spend a lot of time and effort moving our family of 4 to a Family Sharing program.  It works nicely for music and apps.
Now that there is this new option for iPhoto I am seriously considering using it to store all our photos (right now we are using a local NAS).  Problem is, it appears, is that everyone now has their own account and therefore cannot point iPhoto to the same account for iPhoto.
I suppose to reasoning for this would be that if I'm going to spend $20/Month to get 1TB of storage, I'm not going to be doing it for every account - just the one main family account.
Thoughts?

Apologies - I need to update the footer.  Forgot it was automatically attached.
1 - Newest OS, 10.10.2.  Newest iPhoto, 9.6.
2 - Agreed and understood.  I had the NAS failure the other day, swapped out a disk and am back in action.  This was more of a future question.  I don't feel like local RAID is appropriate anymore given the cloud options out there... and those to come.
3 - Again, I provided insufficient information.  I have a NAS to which I have offline storage of iPhoto.  I execute a weekly cron job which rsync's to the NAS - copying a bunch of data.  iPhoto, iTunes music, etc.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my clearly obtuse post.
Hopefully the new data is useful.
LarryHN wrote:
Thoughts? Yes!
1 - You state that you have OS X 10.6.8 - Is that correct? what version of iPhoto?
2 - iCloud Photo Library is not available on the Mac (it will be when Photos is released probably with OS X 10.10.3 later this year) Uitil it is released and available no one knows what exactly it will be
3 - You appear to be operating very dangerously as the iphoto library can not be on a NAS (It must be on a drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) ) and it can not be accessed via a network (you must access the iPhoto library using a hard wire connection like FireWire, USB or ThunderBolt)
(right now we are using a local NAS)
So you need to provide details
LN

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