Tags in Lightroom

Is it possible to import the tags in an Adobe Album 2 catalog into Lightroom? I find Album indispensable in managing images, have spent much time in developing tags, and am wondering whether a more modern Adobe program can take over Album2 functions?

I am on my third attempt at importing over 15K images from PSA 2 into LightRoom. I think there is a connection between Antivirus s/w and the import process as my Norton suddenly had a problem with its subscription status. After a short detour to fix that problem, I have managed to import most everything into LightRoom, but the Keywords are another story. It only brought over 4 of the 10 major tag levels from PSA. I learned that the import will work best in small chunks, like dividing into folders while in PSA to split it up. The import will only do the Keyword import at the successful completion of the image loading into the catalog. So, I think disabling my antivirus s/w and importing small chinks will give me yet another combination to attempt to see if I can blow out a year's worth of images and then re-import to get ALL of the keywords to show up.
Has anyone been this far and found a way to ensure the tags make it into keywords in LoghtRoom?
I think my PSA was reaching its limit on image management b/c of some strange instances of NOT seeing image files when you direct it right to the file. I made the decision to try LightRoom but am afraid it was not much of an improvement over PSA.
The lack of information about this very critical step of importing a catalog is troubling to me. What good does all the fancy smancy photo editing gadgets do me if I can't make the leap?

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