Supposedly migrated photos not in new Photos

I didn't even know Apple was changing iPhoto to Photos so it came as a surprise after downloading 10.10.3 to be greeted with a message telling me to migrate my photos that date back to 2002 in iPhotos to Photos.  I chose to migrate them to Pictures, which may have been a mistake but the only other option was to migrate them to iCloud, which I didn't want to do.  The migration seemed to happen very quickly.
Now I have a ton of photos in Pictures but it's a fraction of all the photos I had in Events.  When I open Photos, there is only one album.  I spent hours this past weekend scanning precious photos of my late parents and long-dead relatives into an album in iPhoto and now I can't see them. 
I thought maybe I could restore them from Time Machine but when I open iPhoto in Time Machine, it tells me how big the library is but I can't access it.
I'm sure all the albums are somewhere.  The question is:  where?  And how do I find them?
All responses much appreciated.

If you are looking for digital photos, you could do a search for the names. For instance, I use a Sony Cybershot which numbers the photos with DSC as a prefix. Searching for DSC* will throw up all the photos I have downloaded from it.
regards
Mike L

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