Moving snow leopard data from from old iMac time machine to Yosemite

I have a pre-2007 17" iMac running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.  Time Machine is used to backup this machine.
I plan to buy a new iMac or Mac Mini with Yosemite, and would like to move some of the data from the old iMac to the new Mac machine. 
Can I connect the new Yosemite Mac to Time Machine and selectively restore data from the Snow Leopard backup?

This solution worked perfectly (almost).
Tips: don't forget to deauthorize old computers for itunes content lol.
The folders copied over easily, and lauching each program, a few prompts and each had pulled in my old data easily. I noticed one currupt picture that I'll look on my old machine to find. I plan on verifing quantity of music, photos, etc to double check. And iMovie was having a lil trouble opening, hopefully thats resolved with my gbs of unedited videocamera movies. Otherwise easy.
I noticed my iweb didnt import, so I probally need to find it in documents or something.
Thanks for all the help. Hope this helps someone else.

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