PSE 11 People & Face tags & Metadata

Hi All,
I'm using PSE 11 and have imported some photos that were being used in Photo Gallery. My problem is the People/Face tags done in Photo Gallery are not recognised by PSE at all. It detected all other tags OK and imported them but not the People ones. It seems (logically) that 'real' People tags are in a different metadata field than normal tags. However the People tags in PSE are just stored in the 'normal' metadata tags field.
So.. I guess I am asking if anyone knows of a way to get the people tags from metadata into the tags field which PSE will recognise in the same was as its face recon? NB: I am aware of ways I can filter and retag but we are talking about 15,000 family history photos
I'm a little baffled that PSE is not making use of the metadata People field at all - might help get rid of all those nasty breezedata files. But I guess they need a few ways to try to lock people into PSE once they go there. BTW I've been using since the old V1 photoshop album. Never found enough of anything 'great' enough to move but always 'baffled' by things PSE does, doesn't do, takes away or breaks each release never with a patch or update.
So any way to move data from People tag to Tags tag that still takes the face location?
Thanks,
Flano

There is no conversion process because the people module is new to PSE11.
Importing from earlier versions simply brings in key words.
You need to decide if you want to stick with your key words and get this:
Or fully use the new feature and get suggested people stacks:

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