Thinking of a new mac, will TM history migrate over?

I am looking at switching from my mbp to an iMac. I know that I can use migration assistant to move my docs, apps, etc to the new computer, but I would like to know if this includes TM.
I sure do hope so, because it would be very unfortunate if I had to start TM from scratch.
I would obviously be using the same drive to which my current TM back-ups are stored.
If this option is not native to migration assistant, are there any how-to that I could be pointed to?

in a different scenario, whereby the MBP had died, you could Migrate the most recent TM back-up into the new Mac (there are 4 options at the Migrate/Restore from TM) and so resume at where you left off (PPC and Intel limitations notwithstanding on some apps), but the history of backups from the MBP would then be unavailable on the new Mac.
So, if you used TM as a device to archive old files, restore them in TM if you needed them, you'd be stuffed in the scenario of dead MBP.
Unless, I guess, you do the hack of making both Macs have the same MAC code (sorry about the pun) which seems very fiddly and not wholly successful.
So, on the one hand TM is heaven sent. On the other hand, in the event of hardware failure or misunderstanding of the concept, all history is lost.
Hmmmm.

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