Personal description

[KarenChristino]

I have my GGF's military record but can't make out parts of his personal description. Since we have no pictures of him, I want to know what it says!

Colorito - bruno -- Does this simply mean dark in general? (His son, my GF was fair.)
Capelli -- Castagui -- "Castagna" in my dictionary means "chestnut" -- so, dark brown?
Capelli -- forma -- looks like "Onvati" -- I can't find this! Any thoughts?

Karen

[johnnyonthespot]

Can you post the document?

Capelli, forma: refers to the style or type of hair. You would expect to find the Italian equivalent of terms such as curly, straight, wavy, bald, and so on. You can look up suspect words at a site like http://www.wordreference.com/enit/

Colorito means complexion; bruno would be a typical dark skinned southern Italian.

As you guessed, the hair color is chestnut brown.

[KarenChristino]

Thank you Carmine! I am not so swift with the technology, unfortunately. The handwriting is rather clear, though, and the word I'm still searching for (and cannot find online) is "Onvati" regarding the hair type. Doesn't appear to be curly, straight or bald!

[johnnyonthespot]

Possibly ondulati? Means wavy hair.

Some terms in these documents use common (at the time and place the record was created) abbreviations. Perhaps you are seeing an abbreviated version of ondulati.

[KarenChristino]

Si -- I never thought to check "wavy" -- that's it! Thanks Carmine.

[TriciaFierro]

hi Karen! I will reply to your email later tonight or tomorrow but while I was grabbing records today at the FHC I did print off some Cristino records. I'll email you the names and if you would like them I will email to you. Hopefully you will be able to read them because the machine at my FHC is very old and I read most of the documents with a magnifying glass even after altering the lightness and darknes on the printer
Talk with you soon!