Import from Picasa - Album names

I'm in the process of migrating from Picasa to Lightroom and have a number of questions. I'm posing these separately to help others search later Should the thread be worthwhile.
One is: Is there a way to get the Picasa album name into metadata somehow (presumably as a keyword)?
I will be setting a keyword to indicate the images come from Picasa.

Please bear with me, I think you have compressed a couple of steps.
You're suggesting that Picasa is embeding the album name in 'the' image file, either the edited copy or an exported version?
And that there is noting in LR or plug-ins to directly grab this data, rather I have to spelunk around the picasa forums & docs.
Ive been using Picasa in a somewhat unthoughtful manner (I suspect like many), both for library organisation and for most simple image adjustments.
Typically, after import from camera, basic adjustments are made, bad images deleted.
For 'events' (a vacation or Christmas) Id create an album and copy the non reject images there. (Sometimes from 2, and on a couple of occasions, 3, cameras).
Then for major events, Id create a 'best of' album inside that.   The edits in the different albums may differ (mainly cropping).
My basic migration plan was to move the various image folders under one umbrella (using windows) then import that folder in one go to LR.
Ideally, in order not to lose anything Id like to import the whole mess as is.   Particularly including the original which handily are in a distinct folder. However that leads to what was going to be the next question.
Am I correct that fundamentally Lightroom will be importing image folders (that happen to have been handled by Picasa)? Thus folders will contain images in 3 states
- unedited, ie original
- edited but edits not saved, image file is still original
- edited and saved, original image moved to 'originals' folder, and current image file updated.
Just to complicate things, because for a long time I did not fully understand how to use non-destructive editing, I would create different versions of an image with different file names as I experimented with different edits.   I dont expect to weed out those duplicates on migration; for the major collections Ill deal with it in Lightroom. (many duplicates will just be deleted - but this is a rainy Sunday project to clean house).
So the next question is - how can I tell in LR what the 'status' of an image is (other than in the originals folder which is easy)?
Presumably a preparatory step is to make sure Picasa has saved all edits back to the folder.   (Select all images in entire Picasa library and 'save' ?)
At least the second category is then eliminated.
I imagine Im not the only one with this kind of mess... my next question is, are there standard approaches to the migration process?   I think my goals are, in order:
- not to lose any originals
- to be able to get to the original of any image with certainty
- where possible to also have the latest / best picasa edited version

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