diff --git a/docs/modules/chains/index_examples/chat_vector_db.ipynb b/docs/modules/chains/index_examples/chat_vector_db.ipynb
index b5e28b51..e86aa162 100644
--- a/docs/modules/chains/index_examples/chat_vector_db.ipynb
+++ b/docs/modules/chains/index_examples/chat_vector_db.ipynb
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 3,
+   "execution_count": 1,
    "id": "70c4e529",
    "metadata": {
     "tags": []
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 4,
+   "execution_count": 2,
    "id": "01c46e92",
    "metadata": {
     "tags": []
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 5,
+   "execution_count": 3,
    "id": "433363a5",
    "metadata": {
     "tags": []
@@ -81,18 +81,17 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 6,
+   "execution_count": 4,
    "id": "a8930cf7",
    "metadata": {
     "tags": []
    },
    "outputs": [
     {
-     "name": "stdout",
+     "name": "stderr",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
-      "Running Chroma using direct local API.\n",
-      "Using DuckDB in-memory for database. Data will be transient.\n"
+      "Using embedded DuckDB without persistence: data will be transient\n"
      ]
     }
    ],
@@ -104,6 +103,25 @@
     "vectorstore = Chroma.from_documents(documents, embeddings)"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "898b574b",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "We can now create a memory object, which is neccessary to track the inputs/outputs and hold a conversation."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 20,
+   "id": "af803fee",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory\n",
+    "memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key=\"chat_history\", return_messages=True)"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
    "id": "3c96b118",
@@ -114,12 +132,96 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 7,
+   "execution_count": 21,
    "id": "7b4110f3",
    "metadata": {
     "tags": []
    },
    "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore.as_retriever(), memory=memory)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 22,
+   "id": "e8ce4fe9",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "query = \"What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson\"\n",
+    "result = qa({\"question\": query})"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 23,
+   "id": "4c79862b",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/plain": [
+       "\" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.\""
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 23,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "result[\"answer\"]"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 24,
+   "id": "c697d9d1",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "query = \"Did he mention who she suceeded\"\n",
+    "result = qa({\"question\": query})"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 25,
+   "id": "ba0678f3",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/plain": [
+       "' Ketanji Brown Jackson succeeded Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.'"
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 25,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "result['answer']"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "84426220",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## Pass in chat history\n",
+    "\n",
+    "In the above example, we used a Memory object to track chat history. We can also just pass it in explicitly. In order to do this, we need to initialize a chain without any memory object."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 26,
+   "id": "676b8a36",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore.as_retriever())"
    ]
@@ -134,7 +236,7 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 8,
+   "execution_count": 6,
    "id": "7fe3e730",
    "metadata": {
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@@ -148,7 +250,7 @@
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-   "execution_count": 9,
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    "id": "bfff9cc8",
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@@ -160,7 +262,7 @@
        "\" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.\""
       ]
      },
-     "execution_count": 9,
+     "execution_count": 7,
      "metadata": {},
      "output_type": "execute_result"
     }
@@ -179,7 +281,7 @@
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   {
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-   "execution_count": 10,
+   "execution_count": 8,
    "id": "00b4cf00",
    "metadata": {
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@@ -193,7 +295,7 @@
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   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 11,
+   "execution_count": 9,
    "id": "f01828d1",
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@@ -205,7 +307,7 @@
        "' Ketanji Brown Jackson succeeded Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court.'"
       ]
      },
-     "execution_count": 11,
+     "execution_count": 9,
      "metadata": {},
      "output_type": "execute_result"
     }
@@ -636,7 +738,7 @@
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    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.10.9"
+   "version": "3.9.1"
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